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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sallent, post: 3584897, member: 76194&quot;]Lemon juice should only be used for a few minutes at a time, and multiple soaks as needed. Don&#039;t just leave a coin unatended in it for hours. It will probably ruin the coin by leaching all the impurities and leaving the coin highly porous.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie96" alt=":vomit:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie9" alt=":eek:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Look, with coins it is honestly better not to clean unless it&#039;s for identification purposes or the deposit is so heavy it ruins the aesthetics of the coin substantially. You are more liable to do damage to the coin than not. There is nothing wrong with having an occasional dark toned silver coin. I think they can be beautiful too.&nbsp; If anything,&nbsp; dark toning makes an ancient silver coin look more authentic. I don&#039;t think a 2,000 year old coin should be bright as a mirror.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]956914[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]956915[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]956917[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Do whatever you want, but my advise is just leave it as is and learn to live with it before you end up irreversably damaging a perfectly good coin. I&#039;ve seen a newbie here ruin a perfectly decent Gordian III ant by soaking it in lemon juice for several hours. By the time he was done, coin went from a dark beauty with excellent surfaces, to a shinny pile of turd with surfaces so porous no one would ever want that coin in their collection. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie44" alt=":drowning:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie57" alt=":jawdrop:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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